Defendant Lavelle Xavier Mitchell had just stepped off a public bus when he was approached by a fare enforcement officer who asked him for proof that he had paid the fare. When Mitchell was unable to provide proof, the officer asked for identification...

Petitioner Manuel Lujan, Jr. ("Lujan"), the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, promulgated a new interpretation of § 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), which required consultation only for actions taken in the United States or...

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Appellants challenged the decision by a class action was filed against a pension plan and the plan administrator (plan) for violation of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The action was filed by more than 4000 participants. Each subclass...

The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 USCS 951 et seq.) vested the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) with discretion to award financial grants to support the arts. Applications for NEA grants were initially reviewed...

On April 13, 2011, Plaintiff Greg Knowles filed a putative class action complaint against Defendant The Standard Fire Insurance Company alleging breach of contract due to The Standard Fire Insurance Company's underpayment of claims for loss or damage...

Respondents, Bouaphakeo et al., employees of petitioner Tyson Foods, worked in the kill, cut, and retrim departments of a pork processing plant in Iowa. Bouaphakeo et al.’s work required them to wear protective gear, but the exact composition of...

After a public hospital in Illinois fired Cheryl Churchill who had worked in the hospital's obstetrics department, Churchill filed an internal grievance in which she claimed that she had been fired because of sharing her sentiments to a second nurse...

Respondent Roe brought suit alleging, inter alia, that his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to freedom of speech were violated when the city of San Diego terminated his employment as a police officer, for selling police paraphernalia and videotapes...

Pittsburgh Press Co. (Pittsburgh Press) was alleged to have been violating The Human Relations Ordinance of the City of Pittsburgh (the Ordinance) which forbade newspapers to carry "help-wanted" advertisements in sex-designated columns except...